Now eco-zealots target the snooker: Just Stop Oil protester jumps on table during World Championship game and tosses orange paint over it as fans jeer and shout ‘get him off!’
- Just Stop Oil protester threw paint over a snooker table at World Championship
A Just Stop Oil protester tossed orange paint over a snooker table during the World Championship before being dragged away today.
The eco-zealot jumped on the snooker table during a match between Robert Milkins against Joe Perry during Day Three of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
Moments before, another protester had jumped on the next-door table at the event sponsored by used car dealer company Cazoo, but was stopped and taken away by the venue’s security.
Snooker fans jeered and booed the activist as he interrupted play. One irritated fan shouted: ‘Get him off!’
Just Stop Oil would not tell MailOnline why they targeteted the snooker. However, after the intrusion, Just Stop Oil told their followers ‘oil and gas will snooker us’.
A Just Stop Oil protester tossed orange paint over a snooker table during the World Championship before being dragged away today.
The eco-zalot through orange powder paint on the table, interrupting play this evening
Security dragged him from the table and he was reportedly later arrested, according to Just Stop Oil
Orange powder on the table after a Just Stop Oil protester jumped on the table during the match between Robert Milkins against Joe Perry
The balls and one end of the table was covered in th orange paint that the protester threw
The group tld MailOnline: ‘This is no time to be a spectator, fossil fuels are killing millions and pushing us closer to the collapse of human civilisation.
‘We face crop failure, drought and starvation within a few short decades. To allow new oil and gas is the greatest criminal act in human history.
It’s time for everyone to join us in civil resistance or face the loss of everything we know and love. Which side are you on?’
He was quickly taken away by the venue’s security and play at the tournament resumed
In a separate statement the group said: ‘[The protesters] are demanding that the Government immediately stop all new UK fossil fuel projects and are calling on UK sporting institutions to step into in civil resistance against the Government’s genocidal policies.’
MailOnline has contacted Just Stop Oil for comment.
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